On 2021-02-01 13:13, Alan McKay wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 12:49 PM Peter Sj??berg <peters-oclug [ at ] techwiz [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > I'm going with centos8 (or stream or something like that) > > This may not matter for home use but worth of a discussion in any case. > > In case anyone missed the smoke-and-mirrors on that one CentOS stream > takes the "ent" out of "CentOS" > > "ent" used to stand for "enterprise grade", but that is no longer the > case with stream. > > The reason it used to be enterprise grade is because it was downstream > from RHEL, and RHEL undergoes a great deal of QA performed by RH. > > Stream is now UPSTREAM from RHEL - which is a bit crazy. This is the > other shoe dropping from the RH official collaboration with CentOS a > few years ago. > > Anyone who is currently using CentOS in a production environment needs > to have a serious look at changing distros. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/ Or you can use Rocky or Lenix. slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org